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Father's Day: A Mystery Review
Louis Klein has returned to the scene of his broken life in Philadelphia. A hard-nosed ex-cop, Klein is currently living in his dead mother's house- her murder still unsolved- attempting to honor a long ago commitment to his dead ex-partner, Sam Blackwell. Sam's widow, Sarah, who has a brief history with Lou as well, has begged him to locate her missing daughter, Carol Ann, a deeply troubled teenager. Appealing to Lou's knight-in-shining-armor instincts, however dulled by time, Sarah is not above using her feminine wiles to reveal only what she wants Klein to know about her daughter's recent activities. Married now to a powerful, dangerous man who controls most of the city's movers and shakers, Sarah is a woman who usually gets her way, even though she pays a high price for it. It is up to Klein to sift fact from fiction, to track Carol Ann through the detritus of a rebellious life and unsavory acquaintances.
Like the noir films of the 50s, Gilman's Philadelphia is riddled with crime, graft and corruption, his own path shadowed by a less-than-stellar career, a cop given to excessive force, a troubled marriage and a tenuous relationship with his only daughter, Maggie. Things get rough as soon as Lou begins asking questions and banging heads; people die; a distraught Sarah overdoses. But Klein hangs on like a dog with a bone, refusing to relinquish the little progress he has made. In taking on this case, Lou has opened old wounds to meet the obligation of the past, a process of self-flagellation and determination, revealing his own flaws along with the ugly secrets of Carol Ann, Sarah and Sam Blackwell. Filled with wise guys, weary cops and people stumbling under the burden of past mistakes, this is a humorless, dark tale, Carol Ann's prospects looking worse as the time passes.
Klein retreats to the past to recover his integrity and some small hope for the future, pragmatically cleansed of regrets. Gilman writes of this world with familiarity and compassion, big city America not yet robbed of all its promise, albeit severely damaged. Klein embraces the cop's life, that murky terrain of law and order where well-intentioned men face too much of humanity's depravity to remain unscathed. To walk around with Louis Klein is to understand this particular environment: each step closer to Carol Ann's fate puts Klein on a collision course with his own conscience, his survival in an indifferent world. Luan Gaines/2009.
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